Scott Brown Losing Standing With New Hampshire Voters, Poll Shows

FILE - In this Nov. 4, 2012, file photo, then-Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., waves to supporters from his bus after a campaign rally at Faneuil Hall in Boston. Three years ago, Brown was a little-known Republican state senator from Massachusetts who shocked Democrats by winning a U.S. Senate seat. Now, having compiled a voting record more moderate than his tea party allies would have liked and losing his bid for a full term, Brown is considering whether to seize a second chance to return to the Sena

A Suffolk University/Boston Herald poll released Thursday shows that Brown is trailing incumbent Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), 52 percent to 39 percent. The poll of 800 likely New Hampshire voters also found that only one in three voters have a favorable opinion him, compared to 42 percent holding an unfavorable opinion of him.

"I know what the timelines are and when I need to make a decision, one way or the other," Brown said in an email to Politico.

Most polls included in HuffPost Pollster's latest compilation of publicly available surveys show Shaheen's lead over Brown to be narrower than 13 points, with margins as narrow as three points (PPP, 1/9/14-1/12/14).

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